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Regional Headlines

Minneapolis attorney William Butler faces two felony counts of failing to file his state income taxes in 2013 and 2014. Few Minnesota lawyers in the past decade have found themselves so frequently on the wrong side of the law as William Bernard Butler.
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Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity and Minnesota Housing have entered into a 10-year, $25 million agreement that Habitat said will help it increase affordable-housing production in an increasingly expensive market. The partnership with Minnesota Housing gives Habitat access to a flexible, low-cost credit line, allowing Habitat to respond to land-and-property acquisition opportunities in a tight housing market.
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"Community banks didn't cause the crisis," said Grand Rapids State Bank President and CEO Noah Wilcox, who's long been an outspoken advocate of tiered regulation for smaller banks. "We got caught in the crosshairs for the sins of our big brothers."
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Now that the outdoor season is finally here, Minnesotans are sprucing up decks and patios and firing up their grills. Anyone can relax or dine al fresco, even on a condo balcony built for two.
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National Headlines

A rise in mortgage, auto loan, and credit card balances drives a record amount of post-financial-crisis consumer debt. If consumers are holding record amounts of debt, is that good or bad for the U.S. economy? Surely, intelligent economists could occupy both sides of the debate.
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Royal Bank of Scotland will pay a 4.9 billion US dollar fine to settle allegations it misrepresented the types of mortgages it sold to investors during the housing bubble that ultimately led to the 2008 financial crisis. The US Justice Department said in a statement that the penalty is the largest it has imposed for financial crisis-era misconduct at a single company.
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A search analytics firm has found that the number of online searches for payday loans far outranked mortgage-related queries over the past year in Canada. New data from SEMrush shows that payday loans came in first out of 10 different types of loans, garnering an average search volume of 29,000 a month on search engines such as Google.
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Authorities say a bomb threat is what prompted country group Rascal Flatts to abruptly end a concert in Indiana last week. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department says the bomb threat made Thursday night for Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center in suburban Indianapolis was deemed a credible danger.
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